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Guided Notes
Geography 1.2
The Elements of Geography
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Geographers consider six elements
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Places and regions
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Human systems
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The uses of geography
The World in Spatial Terms
 Spatial relationships are the links people and places have to one another because of
their locations.
 Locations are __________________________________________________________
Places and Regions
 Place - _______________________________________________________________
 Geographers must determine how places are similar and different from one another.
Places and Regions Cont.
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Regions - areas with similar characteristics.
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Three types of regions
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__________________________ - defined by a common characteristic, such as
products produced there.
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Functional region - _________________________________________________
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__________________________ - defined by popular feelings and images rather
than by objective data.
Physical Systems and Human Systems
 Physical Geography - ___________________________________________________
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 ___________________________ - or cultural geography, is the study of human
activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments.
Environment and Society
 Human-environment interaction - __________________________________________
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 Geographers examine the ways people use their environment, how and why they
change it, and what consequences result from these changes.
The Uses of Geography
 Provides insight into how physical features and living things developed in the past.
 _____________________________________________________________________
Research Methods
 _________________________________ - geographers will visit a place to gather
specific information about it and its geographical features.
 _______________- Specialist who make and design maps are known as cartographers.
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_______________________ select complex pieces of information about an area
and present them in a more understandable form on a map.
Research Methods Cont.
 ____________________________- helps to answer questions about how people think
or feel about a certain location.
 ______________________________ - information geographers use can be numerical,
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temperature and rainfall data
 __________________________ - Geographic information systems (GIS), process and
organize data
Geography and Other Subjects
 Past Environments - geographers use historical perspectives to understand what places
could have looked like in the past.
 Politics - ______________________________________________________________
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Geography and Other Subjects Cont.
 ____________________________________ - Human geographers use sociology and
anthropology to understand cultures around the world.
 ___________________________ - understands how the location of resources affect
the ways people make, transport, and use goods.